![]() ![]() So it is that the developers of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth faced an interesting choice: should their dating system be true to the original, or should it go for something more modern? The answer is one that the FF7 Remake series dabbles in with glee: why not both? In the original FF7, an invisible mechanic leads to a different scene, and that’s that. It’s only in the recent Persona 3 Reload do-over that those storylines have now been given platonic variants, players given a direct choice of how to proceed, as in later games. If you tried to befriend multiple girls, your lead would end up with multiple partners. In that game, if you chose to advance a relationship with a girl sufficiently far, it turned into a romance. The original Persona 3, made almost a decade after FF7, didn’t even really have proper choice. Games are generally more frictionless now – and the evolution of dating mechanics offers one excellent example of how that has come to pass.īut FF7 was born of a time with a different philosophy, and one that lasted for a while. It’s now easier than ever to chase the specific partner you want for the protagonist without a guide. But additionally, titles like Mass Effect or even Persona make damn well clear when you’re doing something that’s going to change your relationship with a character through cues both subtle and sledgehammer. Conversations in games are more organic, which helps enormously. In the years since, a more plain and straight-forward way of implementing such relationships has developed. You'd hug her, right? | Image credit: Square Enix Either deliberately or simply through developer oversight, it was an obfuscated mechanic, the stat that determines your date and the events that adjust it a shadowy thing only visible to fans who fire up a save game editor or peek into the game code. This was part of the joy of FF7’s dating system, I think. Later, I learned the truth - and in subsequent playthroughs, I augmented my choices in the earlier parts of the game to see scenes with all of the eligible cast members, (including Barret). When you reach the Gold Saucer a little under halfway through the game, I made the assumption that everybody saw the scene I did - a cute little ferris wheel date between Cloud and Aerith. ![]() I wasn’t following a guide, so every dialogue choice I made just went with my gut. In my first run through of FF7, I didn’t even think about it. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. ![]()
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